With the agreement from the Government, Hà Nội’s administration announced that strict social distancing measures in place to curb coronavirus spread would expire at midnight Wednesday.

Social distancing restrictions will be eased in Hà Nội from April 23 as Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc agreed to downgrade the city from the COVID-19 high-risk group to medium-risk.

The Border Guard Command in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên on Tuesday handed over "houses of gratitude" to 65 families living in extremely difficult circumstances in Chung Chải commune, Mường Nhé district.

A 6-year-old boy is the country's latest COVID-19 patient to recover at the Tây Ninh General Hospital in the southern province of Tây Ninh on Wednesday evening.

Việt Nam reported no new cases of COVID-19 in the past 12 hours. The total tally of patients has remained at 268 for six and a half days since April 15.

The concentration of fine dust PM2.5 in Hà Nội exceeded Việt Nam’s standard of 50 micrograms per one cu.m of air on some days last week, despite the country being in a social distancing period, the Việt Nam Environment Administration (VEA) has reported.

The HCM City People’s Committee has decided to reduce government workers’ allowances by 33-50 per cent with retrospective effect from January 1 and add the money saved to relief packages meant for people directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Individuals and households who must move out of dilapidated apartment buildings or who have handed over land or housing for public works will receive financial support to rent temporary housing while waiting for resettlement housing or land lots, with a maximum amount of VNĐ24 million (US$1,020) per household per month.

The whole area of Đồng Văn District, in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang, has been locked down on Wednesday until further notice after the first COVID-19 case was reported in the province last week.